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Living School

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Dear contemplative friends,This post comes to alert you to an extraordinary learning opportunity, which I hope you will find as exciting as I do. Richard…
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Assisi

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Hello friends,I thought you might be interested in this unique link, which will lead you to Marty Schmidt’s blog account of our Assisi teaching. Marty…
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St. Brendan

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My St. Brendan icon is arrived! It made its way across the waters (natch!)—by air (quite unknown to St. Brendan)—and in only three days (as compared…
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Cosmic Intimacy

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I have come to see that our yearning for intimacy is the way in which we human beings show ourselves to be most profoundly made in the image of God. Too…
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PUT WOMEN BACK IN HOLY WEEK – Washington Post blog by Cynthia Bourgeault

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Cynthia recently provided this posting for the Washington Post On Faith blog site: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/put-women-back-into-holy-week/2012/04/06/gIQAmAhO0S_blog.html"...With…
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GUEST POSTING – The Growing Christ – by Brian Puida Mitchell

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“We fear nothingness. That’s why we fear death, of course, which feels like nothingness. Death is the shocking realization that everything I thought…
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GUEST POSTING – Waking up with Lent! – by Ernest Morrow

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Wake up! The season of Lent is like an alarm clock that starts ringing on Ash Wednesday.  As we journey through its forty days, we intend to become more…
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GUEST POSTING – The In and Out of Breath – by Selinde Krayenhoff

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“In the spiritual (as in the material) world there is no empty space, and as self, and fears and worries depart out of your lives, it follows that the…
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Holy Time in “Hermit Land”

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Dear friends,Two weeks into this winter hermit adventure, and I’ve already pretty much lost track of what day of the week this is, so at the moment I’m…
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Winter Hermitage

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Dear friends,Well, the long-awaited time has at last arrived! After more than ten years in the planning and ground-laying, I have arrived back on Eagle…
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GUEST POSTING – The Board Member’s Voyage: A Sailor’s Challenge

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BLOG ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTE: Last October Cynthia received a wholehearted endorsement and reference to her book Mystical Hope in a blog entry by scientist,…
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A New Place to Call Home

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Christmastide greetings to you all!Surprise!!! I have a new home. On the Monday before Christmas I slipped off of Eagle Island in the trough between two…
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Christmas Blessings

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Dear friends and fellow contemplatives,  We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a joyous and blessed Christmas – and to share this brief…
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Remembering Margaret Haines

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In early December Margaret Haines, founding president of The Contemplative Society, slipped peacefully from this life on her beloved Salt Spring Island,…
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Reflections on Suffering

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One of the things I most love about the line of work I’ve fallen into—writing books that push the Christian theological envelope—is that it brings…
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Fall Triduum

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Many years ago, it occurred to me that the fall also offers us a Triduum in those great three days encompassing Halloween (October 31), All Saints Day (November 1), and All Souls Day (November 2).
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Off We Go!

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 Dear friends,Welcome to our brand new Contemplative Society blogspot! All morning as I’ve pondered about how best to launch this initial post, I find…
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